Successive High Priests

Famous quotes containing the words successive, high and/or priests:

    “He represents the privilege of the intellect, the power, namely, of carrying up every fact to successive platforms, and so disclosing, in every fact, a germ of explanation.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Lord Bateman was a noble lord,
    A noble lord of high degree,”
    —Unknown. Young Beichan (l. 1–2)

    “Wee image of my bonnie Betty,
    I fatherly will kiss and daut thee,
    As dear an’ near my heart I set thee
    Wi’ as guid will,
    As a’ the priests had seen me get thee
    That’s out o’ hell.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)